The insincerity of his disclosure was mentioned earlier, which now looks like a closet escape built around fame and money. Ah, to be privileged!
Former *NYSNC performer Lance Bass agreed that Underwood was “monetizing” the experience. He went on to say, “When you first come out, most people … have no clue about the LGBT community. They don’t know what the issues are, they have no idea because they’ve been so separated from that on purpose.” He advised Underwood, at this point, to “sit back, listen and learn.”
Caitlyn Jenner introduced herself via a cover story in Vanity Fair, she immediately announced a similar venture like Underwood. Her reality series, I Am Cait, documented her evolution into the trans world, and the reality was that Cait was then kicked off from the transgender community. Equally, she should have sat back, listened, and learned before launching her E! series.
Her keen endorsement for Trump in 2016 was ridiculous. In 2018, via an op-ed for The Washington Post, she renounced her support saying, “My hope in him — in them — was misplaced, and I cannot support anyone who is working against our community,” Jenner prophetically wrote. “He has made trans people into political pawns as he whips up animus against us in an attempt to energize the most rightwing segment of his party.”
As per the story in Axios, she’s running for governor is that her team of campaign advisors are nothing more than Trump ass-lickers and acolytes. She is being advised by her friend Brad Parscale, who was Trump’s high-flying former campaign manager, raking in millions and showing off in his exotic homes and fancy cars. And worse, the dangerous misinformation campaign he built and ran and tried to run again, even after it was clear the man, he put in office has sociopathic tendencies.
She’s working with advisors who are making trans the political paws. Her words came back to haunt her. Does she understand that the Trump machine is behind the more than 100 bills in 33 states that aim to curb trans rights, a record-breaking year for such legislation, according to a story this week on CNN?
Fairly, her tone-deafness and unfaithfulness are confusing. The entire recall effort in California against current Governor Gavin Newsom is being driven by the Trump wing of the Republican party, and she’s running as a Republican to replace Newsom. It is a state where President Biden beat the former guy by nearly 30 percentage points. In her right mind, where does she think her votes will come from?
Trump’s party is are using transgenders as a section issue. Does she think that they’ll make an exception for her? Vote for her while accusing and banishing the trans community all over the country? That is pitiful. Moreover, she has done little to earn back the trust of the LGBTQ+ community after her backing of Trump, then rejection, and now reunion. Does she think that we will vote for her because she’s transgender, despite the fact that Newsom is one of the strongest political allies our community has?
What does she hope to achieve? According to her, it wouldn’t even make the cut for another reality TV series about candidate Cait? Is she in search of relevancy and devotion? To be hovered over by the media looking to exaggerate her run? Putting her front and center once again? It sure sounds like it.
One of her Trumpian campaign advisers tells Axios that Jenner has a greater name ID than Newsom and can command the kind of earned media that “will go to every possible demographic you could think of.”
All that attention for an out-of-touch woman, venturing out from her mountain-top Malibu estate, decrying that California’s taxes are too high (a real dent into her wealth I am sure), and criticizing the state’s “over-restrictive lockdown” response to the pandemic. She sure sounds like Trump and likes publicity almost as much as he does. Currently, 56 percent of Californians say they don’t want a recall election. Thus, if the ability to remember goes down, Jenner goes nowhere, except back up to her mountain top retreat after generating lots of PR for herself.
When sources talk about Mary L. Trump over the summer, I asked her about Caitlyn Jenner’s support for her uncle. Here’s what she said, which sounds pretty visionary. “I thought her transition was amazing and brave. Then I heard her endorsement, and I put her in the category of people who are completely willing to vote against their own self-interest. She seems like a wealthy person, and wealthy people seem to do better — not sure that’s true — by voting for Republicans.”
When someone is that privileged, they are protected in some ways, which goes against anyone else who might not be wealthy or a member of a minority. Wealth is the greatest divider.”